A Voice of Reform: Essays: Essays [Hardcover]

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Chapter 1 Economic Behavior and Economic Development; Chapter 2 The Subject of Economic Sociology; Chapter 3 Economics Through the Prism of Sociology; Chapter 4 The Social Mechanism of the Economy; Chapter 5 Creative Activity of the Masses; Chapter 6 Social Justice and the Human Factor in Economic Development; Chapter 7 The Role of Sociology in Accelerating the Development of Soviet Society; Chapter 8 Urgent Problems in the Theory of Economic Sociology; Chapter 9 Interview Restructuring Corresponds to the Strategic Interests of the Majority;Tat 'iana I. Zaslavskaia. Edited with an introduction by Murray Yanowitch.First Published in 1989. It has become common, both in Soviet and in Western writings about the USSR, to characterize the early 1980s (the immediate pre-Gorbachev period) as years of stagnation or, at the very least, near stagnation in the Soviet system. Since the sudden outburst of reformist thinking since 1985 it is clear there is actually an elaboration and reinforcement of concepts and ideas that had already begun to emerge in the pre-Gorbachev years. The writings of Tat 'iana I. Zaslavskaia, trained as an economist and today one of the most influential and best known Soviet sociologists, provide an illustration of this proposition.
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